Chris Warrick wrote, on February 21, 2017 11:26 AM > > On 21 February 2017 at 20:21, Grant Edwards > <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2017-02-21, Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> wrote: > >> On 02/20/2017 06:16 PM, Deborah Swanson wrote: > >> > >> > [snip lots about using Windows but rather be > >> > using Linux but not wanting to have to spend lots of energy > >> > switching right now] > >> > >> You know, I'm always reluctant to recommend it, because it can > >> definitely get you tied in knots. But you're about the ideal > >> candidate for looking into https://www.cygwin.com/ > > > > There are other ways to get "shell and unix-utilities" for Windows > > that are less "drastic" than Cygwin: they don't try to provide a > > complete a Unix development environment or the illusion of Unix > > filesystem semantics. [Remember: a Unix shell without a set of > > accompanying utilitys is pretty useless, since Unix shells > don't have > > all of the "built-in" commands that Windows shells do.] > > > > NB: I haven't used any of these lately... > > > > http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ > > http://www.mingw.org/ (look for msys) > > > https://gist.github.com/evanwill/0207876c3243bbb6863e65ec5dc3f 058 (git's bash-terminal) > https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/ > > There were a couple another very highly recommended commercial Unix > shell+utilities products (MKS Toolkit, Interix) that I used to > use. But AFAIK, they all got bought and killed by Microsoft.
Git Bash, or basically msys, is pretty reasonable. But if you are on Windows 10, you might like the built-in Windows Subsystem for Linux (aka Bash on Ubuntu on Windows) more - it's real Linux that runs alongside Windows, but less crazy than Cygwin. -- Chris Warrick <https://chriswarrick.com/> PGP: 5EAAEA16 Thanks Chris, I kind of thought useful software like this would resurface in some form, and you given me msys' new name (Git Bash), or one of them anyway. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
